Batuz

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Portrait of Batuz
Villa Gesell, Argentina
Batuz in the knight's hall of Schloss Schaumburg

Batuz (born May 27, 1933 in Budapest ) is an American artist, philosopher, cultural activist and global citizen. He is the founder of the Société Imaginaire , an institution for intercultural communication through art. Batuz artistic ideas are supported by various foundations, e.g. B. the Batuz Foundation USA, the Fundación Batuz Uruguay and the foundation "Helmets for Peace eV".

The representation and overcoming of boundaries (“no más fronteras”) is the central theme in the artistic work of the artist Batuz. It arises from one's own experience of war, flight and emigration and the associated overcoming of physical boundaries. Even if Batuz works with many different media, his vision always remains that of a co-existing, peaceful world in which the community of people communicates with one another, regardless of position or property. Starting from an abstract world, Batuz tries to achieve practical results and through his visual world to create a new reality that eliminates the differences between people.

Life

Batuz (Miklós Maar) was born the son of a Hungarian landlord and spent his childhood on the family's estate in Mátraderecske near Pétervására in Hungary. Shortly before the end of the Second World War (1944/45) the family fled to Austria from the Red Army and never returned to Hungary.

The family lived in refugee camps and emigrated to Argentina in 1949 . There Batuz began to paint in a naturalistic style as an autodidact, he copied old masters and impressionists in order to contribute to the family livelihood. He also pursued studies in aesthetics and philosophy and was strongly influenced by Ortega y Gasset .

In 1961 he married Ute Mattel, the granddaughter of the composer Anton von Webern , and the couple had three sons and a daughter. In 1973 Batuz moved to the USA with his family.

Important stations in his artistic work

Anti-Wall Project Berlin

In 1969 he built his studio in the coastal town of Gesell in southern Argentina and founded the "Villa Gesell" artist center to bring together painters, writers, sculptors and musicians. He turned more and more towards abstraction. The "interrelation of forms" became the leitmotif for his artistic work.

  • USA (1973–1983)

Set up in the Greens Farms studio and publish his work in so-called portfolios . In 1976 he visited Oskar Kokoschka in his house in Villeneuve , issue of the portfolio "Hommage to America", relocation to Franton Court.

Here he developed the concept of his “Société Imaginaire”; the first meeting took place in 1987 in Schloss Schaumburg.

The "no más fronteras" project was implemented in 2002 across the German-Polish border on the Lusatian Neisse with the support of the former Inspector General Hans-Peter von Kirchbach . The border between the two states was symbolically overcome with civilians and the military.

  • Villa X in Chemnitz will be his new headquarters (since 2005), collaboration with Michael Morgner .

Art projects

  • Founding of the "Société Imaginaire" - a global art project for peace (1984)

Members of the Société Imaginaire include Stanford Anderson , Patricio Aylwin , Misael Pastrana Borrero , Michel Butor , Lucio Cáceres , Fernando Henrique Cardoso , Javier Carrau, Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Alberto Guani , Toshio Hara , Seamus Heaney , Olga M. Hirshhorn , Bruce Kaiser, Timothy Keating, Hans-Peter von Kirchbach , John C. Kornblum , Oscar P. Landmann, Arthur Miller , Henry A. Millon , Czesław Miłosz , Enrique Molina , Inge Morath , Álvaro Mutis , Octavio Paz , Nazir Peroz , Dieter Ronte , Julio María Sanguinetti , Hans Ulrich Spohn , Mark Strand .

  • The anti-wall project planned for Berlin (together with Prof. Stanford Anderson and Wenjun Ge) on Ernst-Reuter-Platz was not realized (1984).
  • no más fronteras - international art project between Germany and Poland on the Lusatian Neisse near Pieńsk - Rothenburg (2002)
  • Helmets for Peace - a cross-border art project, a 4 × 8 m installation made of blue-yellow colored surfaces with 139 steel helmets, originally in Chemnitz (2007), e.g. Currently in the Military History Museum in Dresden

Works

  • Batuz (with D. Ronte, RA Kuchta and C. Heigl): Works in Paper, New York, Rizzoli International Publications, 1981.

His pictures and installations can be found in many public museums around the world:

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Batuz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Concept of the Société Imaginaire (accessed on March 6, 2015)
  2. ↑ Cross-border commuters in the knight's hall (accessed on March 6, 2015)
  3. ^ Villa X Chemnitz (accessed March 6, 2015)
  4. ^ Société Imaginaire - a cultural response to globalization (accessed March 6, 2015)
  5. ^ Members of the Société Imaginaire (accessed May 5, 2015)
  6. ↑ Uwe Kreißig: A very special encounter with Batuz (accessed on March 6, 2015)
  7. ↑ no más fronteras Pieńsk-Rothenburg (accessed on March 6, 2015)
  8. ↑ Michael Bartsch: Cross-border certificate in DNN, No. 53 of March 4, 2015, p. 10
  9. ↑ Helmets for Peace ( Memento from March 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed March 6, 2015)
  10. ↑ Angelika Busse: The motif of the resurrection in art by Michael Morgner and Batuz, Kunstdienst Haus der Kirche Dresden, 2009, see archive link ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on March 6, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Batuz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Batuz, Miklós; Maar, Miklos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine artist, philosopher and cultural activist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest